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Awareness and perception of farmers towards weather forecasting advisory services in Haryana

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Title Awareness and perception of farmers towards weather forecasting advisory services in Haryana
 
Creator Rajesh
 
Contributor Godara, Ashok Kumar
 
Subject Awareness, Perception
 
Description Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of atmosphere for
the future time and a given location. The main advantage of weather forecasting advisory services is to help
farmers, maximize profit by decreasing weather related losses and increasing the timeliness of farm production,
Indian farmers are still depend on the seasonal rains which are highly variable both in time and space including
weather event like drought, flood, heat waves, and tropical storms cyclones severely effects the agriculture
production. With this idea in mind present investigation was conducted in purposively selected Hisar from western
zone and Kaithal districts from eastern zone of Haryana state with the following objective:- to assess the awareness
level of farmers about weather forecasting advisory services, to know the farmers’ perception about weather
forecasting advisory services, to find out the constraints associated with the use of weather forecasting advice, o
ascertain the impact of weather forecasting advisory services in decision taken in field operation. The study can be
concluded that majority of them were in middle to old age groups, belonged to high to medium education status,
social participation and extension contact, with high mass-media exposure, risk orientation, irrigation facilities,
change proneness and fatalism/ scienticism, having medium socio-economic status. The study shows that near to
half of the respondents had negative perception about weather forecasting advisory services. While about, one
third of respondents perceived. The aspect wise perception of respondents about weather forecasting advisory
service reveals that majority of the respondents were fully agreed farmer.It was found that great majority of the
respondents were fully agreed that Radio , TV broadcasting about weather forecast advisory services is useful to
the farmers. However, majority of the respondents were fully agreed that telephone weather services will be useful
to the farmers if the call made is free and timely, weather forecasting advisory services help farmers in reducing
farm losses, weather forecasting is helpful in managing the operation and activity on the farm /home and Weather
forecast affects the farmer’s decision.
The most of farmers could not understand SMS on mobile due to lack of knowledge’ was considered the
most serious constraints followed by weather forecast information is not location specific, due to flexibility in
weather condition information is not right at every time’ was third in rank and the problem of weather forecasting
is not timely at the time of flood and drought and all the constraints may be minimized by providing guidance to
the farmers and by distribution literature and training regarding technicality of weather forecasting advisory
services to the farmers. The problem of belief about traditional weather forecast is more powerful than modern
weather forecasting in farmers’ view, weather forecasting an advisory service is brief hence can not be understood
by majority of farmers and farmers are not able to know the economic benefit of weather forecasts majority of the
farmers are not adopting according in weather forecasting advisory services were also some of the serious
problems. The majority of the respondents fully were agreed with the statement that the seed sowing process
affected on the basis of weather forecasting information change in cultural operation due to weather forecasting
information and it also the irrigation schedule. The source of communication of the farmers regarding the weather
forecasting advisory services, two of the major indicators of source of communication of the farmers were the
credibility and utilization of source of communication regarding weather forecasting advisory services. It was
found Television (ranked 1st) , Radio (ranked 2nd) had mostly used by the respondents as credible channel for weather forecasting information while Mobile SMS facilities by CCS HAU, Newspaper were ranked IIIrd and forth in terms of utilization. As for weather forecasting information Internet facilities ranked last alternate of information in view of respondents as credible channel for weather forecasting information.
 
Date 2016-11-02T09:53:04Z
2016-11-02T09:53:04Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/83236
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU